Faustina Hasse Hodges was an English-American organist and composer. She was born in Malmesbury

Malmesbury

Malmesbury is a market town and civil parish located in the southern Cotswolds in the county of Wiltshire, England. Historically Malmesbury was a centre for learning and home to Malmesbury Abbey...

, England

England

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, the daughter of organist and composer Edward Hodges, who brought his family from England to America in 1838. Faustina Hodges taught music and also worked as a church organist in Brooklyn

Brooklyn

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 and Philadelphia, and began publishing songs and piano/organ music in the 1850s. She also wrote and published her father's biography. She died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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Works

Selected works include:

• L’Amicizia (Friendship)
• Tantum Ergo Opus 65, No. 2
• A psalm of life (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• Dreams: a reverie (Text: H.C.L.)
• The dreary day (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• The holy dead (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Ernst Stockmann)
• The rose bush (Text: W. W. Caldwell)